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2024

Public consultation – Health checks for late career doctors

Released: 7 August 2024
Closed: 4 October 2024

The Medical Board of Australia consulted on a proposal to introduce health checks for late career doctors.

The Consultation Regulation Impact Statement (CRIS) released by the Board sought feedback on the effectiveness of current requirements for late career doctors (aged 70 years and older) to manage their health, whether additional safeguards are needed and whether late career doctors should be required to have regular health checks so they can make informed decisions about their health and practice and manage the related risk to patients. The CRIS provides a summary of the Board’s assessment of the impact and costs and benefits of each option.

Submissions will be published soon.

Public Consultation – Review of the Criminal history registration standard

Released: 4 June 2024
Closed: 30 July 2024

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the National Boards invited stakeholders to have their say on the draft Criminal history registration standard (the criminal history standard) and supporting documents.

In late 2023, as part of our work to improve public safety in health regulation the National Boards and Ahpra consulted widely on a range of reforms, including a series of questions about the current version of the criminal history standard.

After consideration of all feedback, a draft registration standard and new supporting materials were developed. Stakeholders were invited to again have their say on how we have responded to feedback, the draft changes we have made to the criminal history standard, and the other material we have developed to explain how the standard is applied.

Consultation documents and submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the Ahpra website.

Public Consultation on Draft revised registration standard – specialist registration

Released: 3 June 2024
Closed: 3 July 2024

The Medical Board of Australia consulted on the draft revised Registration standard: specialist registration.

Submissions received:

The Board received more than 100 submissions. Some stakeholders requested that their submission remain in confidence. Submissions from organisations and individuals are listed alphabetically below. Some submissions have been published with the person’s name withheld or removed.

We have redacted contact details and potentially defamatory, sensitive or identifying comments from published submissions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in the submissions are those of the individuals or organisations who submitted them and their publication does not imply any acceptance of, or agreement with, these views by Ahpra or the Medical Board.

Please note: This consultation was shorter and streamlined to meet Health Ministers’ expected time frames for the establishment of an expedited pathway for some specialist international medical graduates (SIMGs). The approach to consultation took into account the extensive consultation undertaken as part of the Kruk review.

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Public Consultation - Regulation of health practitioners who perform and who advertise non-surgical cosmetic procedures

Released: 27 November 2023
Closed: 1 March 2024 (Consultation was extended for four weeks)

Ahpra and National Boards are reforming the regulation of registered health practitioners who work in the cosmetics sector in Australia, to improve practice and standards, public safety and informed consumer choice.

We consulted on three draft documents below related to the regulation of registered health practitioners who perform and advertise non-surgical cosmetic procedures.

  1. Guidelines for nurses who perform non-surgical cosmetic procedures (nurses practice guidelines – applies to nurses only)
  2. Guidelines for registered health practitioners who perform non-surgical cosmetic procedures (shared practice guidelines – applies to registered health practitioners excluding medical practitioners and nurses)
  3. Guidelines for registered health practitioners who advertise non-surgical cosmetic procedures (advertising guidelines – applies to all registered health practitioners).

Submissions will be published on the Ahpra website.

 
 
Page reviewed 8/11/2024
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